Blog entries posted during December 2010

This year if there is one thing which fully exploits the beauty of colour it's the world of cycling. With a particular slant on the small nichè markets like BMXing, Fixed Gear and Urban Tricks. If you really think about it the use of colour on an individual level is staggering when you consider the surface area of a bicycle in relation to the space it actually fills. Plus, when complete with rider, most of the cycle's frame is covered by the blurring of legs pumping like pistons to turn the pedals.
Yet, despite the restrictions there are countless blogs and websites dedicated to exploring the personal tastes of the world's bicycle riders. In fact, one of the world's most influential websites, Copenhagen Cycle Chic, is dedicated to the pursuit of cycling in a stylish manner.
This particular image stems from the US and a small handmade cycle frame manufacturer called Geekhouse Bikes and some images of one of its fixedgear builds.
What you'll often see with such examples is the perfect balance of base tones and accenting on such bicycles - base tone on the frame with an accent popping out on the fork and other detailing elements. In this case some extra detailing has been bought out by lacing three pink spokes the wrong way around on this a radially-laced front wheel. Utterly delightful.
If I ever get stuck in terms of colour inspiration you're likely to find me sourcing images of custom-build cycles rather than heading straight to the trend books. It's my guess I'm not alone in this venture.

Christmas can and has come early for Ida Fält who was the lucky winner of a whole year full of inspiration courtesty of four copies of Mix magazine which will be winging their way to her next year.
She can look forward to incredible features, forward trends, micro trends, colour advice and other assorted information from around the world. Architecture, design, textiles, materials and much more.
Despair not though fair reader - for if you want to be like Ida and get four copies of Mix action through your own door next year just click here and subscribe to one of the world's most influential magazines.

At next year's IMM Cologne we'll be holding a great seminar at Pure Village each day from Tuesday until Friday. Entitled Will Yellow Be the New Pink, the seminar will be an inspirational journey through colour trends. It's free for all visitors so we hope to see some of you there. See the calendar section for more information on the times of these talks.

As part of our activities surrounding next year's Stockholm Furniture Fair we will be organising seminars every day from the Tuesday to the Friday. The seminars are free to attend but we're suspecting that they will be well stocked so be sure to get there early to get a good seat. We're going to be looking in-depth at the new NCS Insight trend colours for 2011 with plenty of examples of how these colours are being adopted by the industry and perhaps some handy hints for where to find these colours as we travel on through 2011.
Check the website for further details and also registration information.